IN Coventry we have already seen waiting times increase by 59 per cent since David Cameron came to power. Yet his plans encourage local hospitals to treat more private patients while NHS patients are left waiting longer.

They create a postcode lottery in the NHS, where patients are refused treatments in one area that their friends can get in another.

Coventry’s doctors, nurses and patients have already expressed concerns at the plans. David Cameron has no democratic mandate for this Health Bill. It wasn’t in his manifesto. And it wasn’t in Nick Clegg’s either.

Aneurin Bevan, creator of the NHS, said there would be an NHS only for as long as there were people left to fight for it. That fight is now upon us. Please add your name to the petition at www.dropthebill.com .